. . particularly dangerous because they were designed specifically to deploy the lowest rabble into overthrowing superior cultures and are thus easy tools for the politically ambitious who cloak themselves in God.
Compared to other religions these three are primitive tribalism simplified to absurdity - one all powerful God who favors only one poeple. They glorify ignorance, bigotry and violence using a vengeful God as their example.
Christianity started out as comfort for the downtrodden, but then the rabble rousers found they could mobilize the downtrodden and took over, brought in the Old Testament to support their authority and things went bad from there. I find it very difficult to consider anyone who preaches the Old Testament a Christian.
Islam simply took the very worst aspects of this revised Christianity, wrung out the better parts and used it as a tool to bring civilizations down into poverty and ignorance. The so called "Golden Age of Islam" was simply the time it took to wring the conquered civilizations out of the people.
Unfortunately, wiping out the Middle East will do little to bring this under control. Just like nuclear weapons, the cat is out of the bag and has spread worldwide. The technology is well known and will be applied by rabble rousers from here on out in the name of whatever God they find convenient.
A policy of containment and education is necessary. Unfortunately, the current administration in their ignorance and stupidity has handed power to the Islamic rabble rousers in the name of democracy making the situation far worse than it needed to be. Just the opposite of containment.
I suspect there will eventually be a devistating WMD attack on the U.S. and the U.S. response will be to nuke Mecca or something similar. This will percipitate a slaughter of all Christians and Jews (and a lot of others) in Islamic countries, which will be returned in kind. The world will be cast into a bloodbath it will take a century or more to recover from.
Ain't God great?